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Day 10 - 71:54 (just before lockdown)

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Isha, are you safely indoors? Please text back. Soon as you can, lovely.

[diamondhack]

I'm alive and in my rover, dear, no need to be so worried. Are you indoors as well?

[sturmhond]

I am. I can’t say the same for the rest of my rover. Honestly, I don’t know where they picked up half of these people, they couldn’t obey an order to save themselves. Literally. I’m glad you aren’t one of them.

How are you, otherwise? It’s been a while?

[ You can be responsible for distracting him from whatever’s knocking his rover around. He’s trying not to think about it, or about the people left outside in it. ]

[diamondhack]

Well! Dealing with the special crew that is my rover, but alive, surviving.

So what is this Ravka that you're from?

[She's bored and she's done with listening to her rover talk about... she doesn't know anymore.]

[sturmhond]

Special crew? [ Now, why doesn’t that sound like a compliment? He grins to himself. ] What are they putting you through, lovely?

[ And, again in the name of distraction, he’ll indulge her. To an extent. ]

Ravka is a country. Like your Russia, perhaps? I haven’t much of a comparator, admittedly, but it seems even the names bear a similarity.

[diamondhack]

I've chosen to ignore most of their conversations.

That explains why I could somewhat understand you. One of the girls on my crew is Russian.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Yes. That was vexing, not being able to understand anyone. I'm quite fond of talking.

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Learning English is a priority, suffice it to say.

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

I would say it's not so hard but that would be a lie. There's plenty of us English-speakers to help, at least.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

It comes part and parcel with travelling. I have several languages; just none, seemingly, that are any jot of good here. That’s what I get for trekking so far from home.

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Perhaps I’ll implore you to teach me. You make it sound better than most speakers here, I think.

[ Her turn of phrase is closest to his own, that's what he means. ]

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

I think our devices translate for us, but I'll do what I can.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

They do, yes. When we wear them. It's easy enough to leave the ear pieces out.

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

Fair enough. Alright, we have lessons to make, languages to teach. Just let me know whenever you want to learn.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Could we schedule daily sessions, to begin with? Obviously the kind of scheduling that would be put aside, if other duties got in the way.

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

We can work something out like this. What's your rover and your team?

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Ten, and blue. You'll find mine easily; it's full of intensely irritable people, and me. What number is yours?

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

004. I'm the only woman among the company of men, one with cat ears and a tail.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Cat ears and a tail? That’s something I like about this place. All the non-humans. It’s fascinating to know they even exist, much less being able to meet and talk to them.

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

Are you a scientist now, too?

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Certainly. Why not? I actually like to collect titles. That might as well be the next one.

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

Oh? And what are your other titles?

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

Oh no. Simply telling you would be far too easy.

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

Hm, I should have expected that. Very well, a challenge it is.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

I must say it’s nice to find someone who can appreciate that, for once.

[diamondhack]

FROM: devan.isha@cdc.org

I'm a woman of many talents, a few titles shouldn't be so hard.

[sturmhond]

FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org

That’s something I can appreciate. You’re not a secret gunsmith, are you? I’d like to think you would share something like that.